what a gorgeous day in midtown, manhattan. everybody's so happy. the heat is gone? >> yes. >> that's the park at the end of fifth avenue. >> so is our four hour program. it's over. fox news alert. we are getting new information at this hour about the closing of two dozen u.s. embassies and consulates. and an extraordinary global travel alert for americans. sources telling fox news that terrorist chatter, that u.s. intelligence analysts picked up in the past two weeks, exceeds anything witnessed in the last decade. the closure stretching across a wide swath of north africa, the middle east and central asia. heavily armed military surrounding the u.s. embassy in yemen right now. the fwloebglobal alert is the ff its kind since the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 terror

attacks. >> i'm jamie kocoe colby. the white house is keeping a very close watch and we are, too. susze ricie -- yemen, the home al qaeda's most dangerous affiliate blamed for several recent plots against the u.s. john bolton, former u.s. ambassador to the united nations, fox news contributor. good morning. >> good morning, jamie. >> first of all, the act of closing embassies is just one is step, i imagine, in a process of keeping everyone safe. but do the employees of those embassies remain in place? and if we had done this same thing with those at the consulate or embassy in benghazi, have had a better outcome? >> yeah. one reason to close the embassy is to keep employees, both american and foreign nationals, in their residences. keep them in the dispersed

places to avoid crowds around the embassy. people seeking visas and that sort of thing. also make it easier for the local security authorities to protect the physical structures of the embassies themselves. i think that is the sort of thing that certainly should have been considered in benghazi last year september 11th. i think when you combine that with the travel morning that the state department issued on friday which is a month long, which advises americans to be very, very careful about traveling in some of these same areas, you can see this is considered quite a serious threat. >> as they say, and as we just learned, fox news from our james rosen, one of the most specific we've seen in a decade. in terms of protecting those at these embassies, a travel alert makes sense to many americans. you should always be alert. if you see something, say something. but as you say, those who work at these embassies, and there are many, 22 at least that we know of, they're sitting ducks, aren't they, in their

residences? can we count on these host countries to join our efforts to protect them? >> well, i think we should certainly have been doing a lot more. i hope we are doing more. but i think it also goes to the question that obviously was wrongly answered last september 11th. if americans in a distant place do come under threat, whether they're official americans or private citizens, are we prepared to be able to protect them? to evacuate them if need be. i think that's one of the things that i haven't seen any real evidence in the last 10 or 11 months that we've evaluated the precipitously declining security situation in the middle east and north africa and positioned more military assets in the region to be able to act more quickly. now, perhaps we have and it hasn't been made public. that would be great. but from what i hear, precious little has been done. which means that in many respects, we're just as vulnerable from the point of view of our own preparations. i think even worse the fact, the

extent of this closing of american embassies and consulates, i myself don't recall anything -- anything like as broad as this before. shows that al qaeda's reach is really much more than the administration was willing to let on. that it emanates from the arabian peninsula but it goes through iraq, across north africa. this is a very, very broad stretch from al qaeda. >> an administration who has rarely, if ever, admitted to this global war on terror. i do want to give credit to our military for weakening, at a minimum, al qaeda. certainly through our efforts in iraq and afghanistan and elsewhere. many intelligence sources tell me that there's a hot bed of al qaeda in africa and that our resources are there as well. but are they reconstituting, in a sense? is the fractured al qaeda organization that we know, including al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, coming back, getting stronger?

what is their state right now? >> yes. i think they're clearly getting stronger. coincident with this embassy closure and travel warning, we've had prison breaks in libya, in iraq, in pakistan and in other countries as well. that the international association of chiefs of police also on friday sent out warnings about. interpol, as it's sometimes called. we know in iraq it was an al qaeda prison break. in libya they say it was just local criminals. but i think many people believe a lot of al qaeda got out there. less clear in pakistan. but the fact is al qaeda is not sort of a corporate organization with a chart on the wall. and it never has been. i think that's why it's misleading for the administration to say, well, the real al qaeda, the one that's trapped on the afghan/pakistan border, has been decimated and these are new threats. they're not new threats at all. al qaeda began on the arabian peninsula. that's where osama bin laden was born and raised.

this is something, it's an organization with a lot of offshoots. it's a dispersed organization. it's intended to function that way so that eliminating one or two or even many of its top leaders don't prevent the rest of the organization from operating. and that's been true from its inception. >> that is not very encouraging. let me ask you this. as long as we're doing this reality test, and we all should be aware this is why we're talking about this as our lead story, what do you think is happening here at home? is al qaeda on our shores? >> well, i think this is one of the risks that we have to take seriously. particularly now in the wake of the boston marathon bombing on april 15th. the government has not said that there's a risk here. but you have to believe that if al qaeda thought it could strike again in america, it would certainly like to try and do so. this is something that i think we should be paying close attention to. i think it should heighten our appreciation of our intelligence gathering assets like the

electronic surveillance that the national security agency does. whether nsa used one of its programs that's come under criticism, xkeystroke or prism of others, obviously we don't know. i can tell you going forward knowing there's a threat out there, these are exactly the kinds of programs that we should be using to gather data from a wide variety of sources. >> yes. >> to sift through it, to try to find those needles in the hay stack before they strike. >> thank you, ambassador bolton. we won't speculate on how the details came. we'll just be glad that it's being monitored. thanks for joining us. we are taking this very seriously. we're considering our coverage on the al qaeda terror threat all day on fox news. keep it here for all the latest breaking developments. kelly? iran is swearing in its newly elected president. in a ceremony broadcast live on state television.

change in power raising new questions now about the future of the country's nuclear program. gunner powell li connor powell live from our mideast bureau. what does it mean for us? >> reporter: iran's new president hasan rouhani was elected a month ago. he draws support from iran's moderate middle class. the 64-year-old islamic cleric is tasked with one job sort of revitalizing iran's struggling economy and ending its international isolation. today in a speech, he shoued to do just that. iran's economy, of course, has suffered greatly from u.s. and international sanctions in place because of iran's nuclear ambition. but iran's president has limited power and control of the sort of government in iran. the real authority in iran, of course, lies with ayatollah

khomeini. rouhani is well known to the u.s. he's viewed as pragmatic and far less belligerent than out going president mahmoud ahmadinejad. he sees himself as a negotiator. he sees himself as a bridge between iran and the western world. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has pointed out several times there's really no moderates in iran's political leadership. there's just sort of varying degrees of extremists. but few in the west think with this new president much will change in terms of iran's sort of nuclear ambitions. they're hoping at a minimum the tone will change which is so far seen as a positive step forward. of course, kelly, the big goal for the international community is to get iran to stop their nuclear program. >> connor powell reporting from our mideast bower row. connor, thank you. to a fox news alert now. carnage on a california boardwalk. a driver turning his car on

unsuspecting pedestrians. surveillance video capturing this horror on venice beach. people are scrambling to get out of the way as you can see here as the speeding car moves along the boardwalk. not everyone could get away, though. we are told that one person is dead at this hour. at least 11 others injured. witnesses say it's clear the driver wanted to hurt as many people as possible. >> this guy had an intent to create mayhem and massacre a lot of people. and then he just started going straight down the boardwalk about 60 miles an hour. >> the boardwalk was packed with people. he sped up and purposely, it looked like purposely was swerving back and forth to run over as many people as he could. >> horrific. there were people flying everywhere. it looked like something out of a movie. >> whatever the intent of that driver, and we'll wait to hear from authorities exactly what happened, the search is on. that's right. they took off. we'll have more on the man hunt and the latest developments in a live report next hour.

how about this? congress going on break. but democrats and republicans are gearing up for yet another major budget battle when they do return in five weeks from now. the u.s. is set to hit its debt limit again this fall. but this time some in the gop are shying away from a strategy that would threaten a default on the national debt. so will this softer stance help or hurt the chances of both sides reaching a grand bargain? joining us now is david hawking, senior editor for role call. thanks for joining us this morning. i want to get right to this. do we see that perhaps a grand bargain can take place? >> kelly, you know, the outlook i would say is bleak and limited. but hope springs eternal. yes, you're right that there are some republicans who are advocating that softer approach of not holding the debt limit increase hostage to some other conservative goal which sort of what happened two years ago. but for every one of those

republicans, there are, it seems, at least as many republicans, certainly it's a close call, wanting to maintain that confrontational approach. there's a new poll out this week from pew research center that shows that -- there's a poll of republicans that showed that only a third of republicans think that the republican party in congress has compromised too much. and another third thinks they haven't -- the opposite. the party is totally split. >> there's a split going on within the republican party itself. look, today is president obama's birthday. he's celebrating his 52nd years of living here on earth. so why -- now we take a moment to say happy birthday, mr. obama. look, it's been a tough summer for the president. approval numbers are low. the economy is sluggish. he continues to have a very tough time finding agreements with those republicans you just talked about on a plan to deal or at least get some sort of deal on federal spending and the national debt. what can he do?

>> i think he can -- my expectation is that he'll stand pat and hope that the republicans overplay their hand. i think he is counting on any threat of a government shutdown being blamed more on the republicans than on him. you will see the republicans talk emphatically about any government shutdown would be the president's fault. you'll hear conservatives, heritage action, for example, heritage foundation is coming out hard with this notion that the government should shut down unless the president is willing to defund obama care. and that unless he agrees to that, any government shutdown would be the president's fault. the republicans are split. to go back to the whole split theme. totally split on whether to do that. in general, historically, the last government shutdown in the 1990s was blamed disproportionately on the republican congress. some say bill clinton won re-election in 1996 because the republicans overplayed their hand. now the president is hoping probably at some degree that

that happens again. >> david, listen, the president went on a campaign style tour as you all know to talk about his message on the economy. the message was kind of a repackaging, if you will, or exactly of his proposals from the summer of 2010. offering a corporate tax cut in exchange for creating jobs in the infrastructure. spending on transportation, education. most republicans are still against the president's plan. why and what's the major sticking point? >> well, one major sticking point is that the republicans who do want to do a tax code overhaul want there to be cuts in the corporate tax rate and individual tax rate. they're not going to buy a bargain that just involves corporate tax cuts and not individuals. the other reason is that they don't think that any money from a tax cut should be plowed back into federal spending to boost the economy on infrastructure and roads. so i think that's going to be a nonstarter in the fall. what will be -- the focus will instead be on trying to turn off the so-called sequester, those

across the board spending cuts that have got congress so flummoxed and offset the costs, money that would be saved from turning off the sequester with cuts to entitlements. medicare means testing. the motion the elderly who are richer should pay more for medicare. maybe changing the inflation rate on social security. to hold down social security cost of living increases. that would save enough money to allow it to be spent on regular government operations instead of across the board sequester cuts. >> i hear you loud and clear. but that's a mouthful. they should have stayed right there in dc rather than taking that five-week-long recess. >> right. the amazing thing looking ahead is that when they come back a week after labor day, they're only supposed to be here for two weeks before the house is supposed to leave again. i would predict that recess is going to be canceled. >> david hawkings, we thank you. got to go right now. thank you so much, sir. today is a day to stay close. keep it right here on fox. because we're following breaking

developments on the extraordinary global travel alert for all americans. as sources tell fox news that the terrorist chatter that prompted the closures of a record number of u.s. embassies and consulates around the world exceeds anything witnessed in the last decade. fox news sunday anchor chris wallace sat down with former cia and nsa director general michael hayden. chris's take next. without a doubt cancer screenings can actually save lives. now a serious new warning about overdiagnosis. our "sunday housecall" team explains just ahead. plus, rescue teams racing to save a snowborder that is actually trapped in an ice tunnel. it's happening right now. and they're high up on one of america's tallest mountains. we'll have the breaking details, next. >> it sounds like the best plan of attack is actually to use some chain saws and try and saw through the icedebris to

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you're going to hear a lot about a significant terror threat that's prompting the state department to issue a worldwide travel alert for americans.

and they're also shutting down almost two dozen diplomatic facilities across the middle east. former director of the nsa and cia, general michael hayden, discussed this security concern today on "fox news sunday." listen. >> this does look quite serious. the only thing we're missi inin both of you suggested is the geography. therefore we're taking caution and warning folks all the way between algeria and bangladesh. clearly this is a serious thing. it also kind of points out that this al qaeda danger is not yet over. and at least elements of al qaeda are not yet totally on the run. >> joining me now, anchor of "fox news sunday" chris wallace. good morning. >> good morning to you, jamie. >> he was the perfect guest, i imagine, having headed both those agencies, to ask what exactly is going on. how much more did you learn? >> well, he is not in government and he has not read the threats. he said to take the kind of steps that the u.s. is taking,

closing as he said, i thought it was pretty dramatic, our diplomatic facilities from algeria in the west all the way east to bangladesh as well as this global travel alert, which u.s. diplomats don't like to do because, quite frankly, the host countries don't like it. it hurts tourism. it shows the seriousness of this. excuse me. but i would point out the other issue that was raised by general hayden. that is the idea that despite what the president said, particularly during the campaign last year, that al qaeda is not on the run. that, in fact, they obviously still have sufficient wherewithal and capabilities that the u.s. government is taking this very seriously. the other point i thought he made that was very interesting is at a time when there's a lot of criticism of his former agency, the national security agency, that, in fact, they were the ones who came up with this electronic chatter. so they can still do some good.

>> that was another take to the whole nsa monitoring story that we've been talking about over the last couple weeks. another story that was talked about a lot was u.s. disappointment in russia this week. and the fact that they've now offered asylum to somebody who has really breached a lot of security information from our country. did you talk to him about that? >> absolutely. he -- it was interesting. we also had congressman justin aimagine, one of the prime critics of the nsa. he offered the amendment that almost passed a week ago that would have stopped all the mega met a data collection of phone records and simply said they could only investigate phone records of people under suspicion of terrorist activity that narrowly failed to pass. and one of the questions was edward snowden. amaj thinks he's a whistle blower. that he provided information that congress needed to know about these programs. as you can imagine, general

hayden said exactly the opposite. he said he broke p t law. he's very upset with russia for providing safe haven for snowden and said that the president should, one, cancel his summit and should even consider the question of whether or not we attend the g-20, this international summit on industrial issues in st. petersburg also in september. >> you covered a lot of ground, chris. we won't miss the show. it's always good to see you on sunday morning. have a great day. >> thank you, jamie. same to you. >> thank you. and you should not miss this. because this is important for this week and it's important for our country. more of chris wallace's interview with general michael hayden and congressman justin amash. tune into "fox news sunday." he also sits down with eric cantor to discuss the economy and looming budget battle on capitol hill. it airs at 2:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern on fox. new developments in the battle against cancer.

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welcome back, everyone. time now for "sunday housecall." joining us this morning is dark marc siegel. he's associate professor of medicine at the nyu's langone medical center. also author of "the inner pulse: unlocking the secret code of sickness and health." >> they hardly need an introduction. dr. david samadi is here. chairman of urology at lenknox hill hospital. chief of robotics as well. great to have you both here. first thing we wanted to talk about, there's a new warning. experts are looking into the danger of overdiagnosis and the treatment of cancer, suggesting

that a change in the definition of cancer, they might want to do that in the hopes that patients with nonlife threatening diseases would avoid being overdiagnosed and subject to needless radiation and testing and treatment. i wanted to start with you, dr. sama samadi. >> actually this article came out of jama. we've had a lot of discussion about overdiagnosis and overtreatment. the truth is look at some of the facts. screening we know in the last two or three decades has reduced the number offal mortality. when you screen and overdiagnosis, of course, if you look for them, you're going to find them. the truth is -- >> that doesn't make any sense to me. >> if you start screening for cancer, you're going to find more and more of these diseases. then the question is, which one really are life threatening and which ones are really indolent. which is a bad cancer and which is a good cancer. we never used to use the words